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  • Company inspectors spot-check bicycles for durability.  Here one of its mass-produced bikes is subjected to the simulated pounding of a spin on a bumpy road.
    scf4327-244bicycle 0015 product test...jpg
  • Owner of Porte Maillgot Bike Store Steve Takeoka sizes a bicycle for racer Hide Yamada.  This specialized method helps in custom designing a bike by allowing all parts of the frame to be adjusted to the buyers specs and body needs.
    scf4327-239bicycle 0004 bike shop.jpg
  • The final step in creating the custom bike is the hand assembly of the components.  This is done by four skilled craftsmen.<br />
Basic assembly, such as the wiring of this brake cable is left for humans, not robots.  One worker assembles nearly the entire bike and in the process derives a sense of accomplishment that is often missing from assembly line jobs.
    scf4327-243bicycle 0011 hand assembl...jpg
  • The name of the future bicycle owner, along with a bar code that directs the robotic welders, remains attached to the bicycle frame as it goes through the assembly manufacturing process.
    scf4327-242bicycle 0010 barcodereade...jpg
  • The name of the future bicycle owner, along with a bar code that directs the robotic welders, remains attached to the bicycle frame as it goes through the assembly manufacturing process.
    scf4327-242_Bicycle 0010 BarCodeRead...jpg
  • Robots can measure the frame more quickly and accurately than humans can.  Lgiht diodes affixed to the tip of the robot shows the path it takes in measuring distances between 40 points on the completed frame.
    scf4327-241bicycle 0009 robot measur...jpg
  • The front triangle assembly machine welds the made to order pipes for the frame together with an arc welder from data specified by  by the customer and bike store owner.
    scf4327-240bicycle 0005 computer wel...jpg
  • A robot applies one of 199 variations of the base coat and then a skilled human worker does the more complicated stenciling.
    Bicycle 0016 Robot Painter.jpg
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